Shanghai Quartet plays the Maverick on Sunday
Formed at the Shanghai Conservatory in 1983, the Shanghai Quartet has evolved into one of the world’s most respected and
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The ivory tower: PianoSummer at New Paltz
For three weeks in July, gifted young musicians from all over the world come to SUNY-New Paltz to study at
Documentary of pioneering landscape designer Jens Jensen at Cary Institute
After immigrating to Chicago in 1884, Danish-born Jens Jensen was taken by the immensity of the Great Plains, calling it “America’s
Kids’ Almanac: Take the Chef Challenge, be a balloonatic & pass the pierogies
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson FRIDAY, JULY 8 Dutchess County Hot
Farpoint on the Fourth: Our planet at its slowest
Earth reaches its farpoint on the Fourth of July. This is aphelion, when we are 94 million miles from old Sol. This three-percent
Vladimir Feltsman and the genesis of PianoSummer
For three weeks in July, gifted young musicians from all over the world come to SUNY-New Paltz to study at the
Independence days: July 4 weekend activities
View fireworks from Walkway over the Hudson this Saturday For one of the most spectacular positions from which to see the
Popping Pop’s bubble
In 1811, young poet-to-be Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for anonymously publishing a pamphlet titled The Necessity
Jazzmeia Horn at Bard’s Spiegeltent
The Catskill Jazz Factory continues its fruitful collaboration with Bard College with the Catskill Jazz Factory at the Spiegeltent summer
The one that got away
School’s out for the summer, so kid-friendly movies are needed to provide air-conditioned refuges for families on brutally hot and